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Verlag: Longman (edition Reissue), 1998
ISBN 10: 0452264464ISBN 13: 9780452264465
Anbieter: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Reissue. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.
Verlag: [Stourbridge]: Printed and sold at Stourbridge. Sold also by T. Hurst, Messrs. Longman and Rees, Paternoster-Row; and Messrs. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1797. Reissue of the first edition, published the same year., 1797
Anbieter: Dean Cooke Rare Books Ltd, Bristol, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Octavo. Pagination xii, 131, [1], xiv (misnumbered ziv), [4] p. Lacking the half-title. Numerous blanks bound in at the end, with manuscript remedies to 14 pages. Modern half calf, marbled boards, endpapers renewed, occasional marks and light browning to text. Downing's treatise contains details of symptoms and treatments for diseases in cattle, together with a small number of remedies for maladies in horses. Of its over 250 subscribers listed at the end, a significant number appear to have been local to Stourbridge or Worcestershire generally, from where the author hailed. Many were presumably landowners, yeomen or people otherwise directly concerned with farming, but the list also includes professions such as surgeon and druggist, and of course booksellers. Whichever of these groups our anonymous scribe belongs to, they have continued augmenting the work into the first half of the 19th century, adding some 31 recipes and remedies (variously from 1803 to 1840) including "For Black Water in Cattle", To Prevent Calves Striking", "For a Gargett in a Cows Elder", "To take A kell of a Horses Eye", "Diuretic for inflam'd Legs, on a Horse", and "To prevent Sheep from striking". Most simply list ingredients and quantities, but occasionally there are short notes ("the eye to be rub'd twice pr Day"), and a few include more detailed instructions like: "The Beast should be bled freely and milked quite clean. There will be no necessity for milking her again. If it should so happen to be milked more than once, as described before, it destroys the effect of the medicine [.] though the Udder appears full, yet it should gradually diminish without any injury to the beast." Among all the practical recipes for curing cattle and healing horses, they have allowed themselves some indulgence, judging by a recipe "To make Punch Ice" (not for the livestock, one imagines) using oranges, lemons, brandy and rum. Some remedies are ascribed to the likes of "Casewell", "Humphreys", "R. A. Charleton", "Geo: Hampton" and others, but we have not traced any of these to published works, so we assume these were tried and tested recipes circulated among farmers in manuscript.